Dunno why critics are a thing.. self indulged people who think their opinions have more value. Even though even with taste critics you can fool them with McDonald's or boxed wine. Just people wanting to feel important

Critics hated Cuphead so much that the PC got a metascore of 88 and the XBox One version got a metascore of 86. Alien Isolation got an 81 on PC, a 79 on PS4, and a 78 on XBox One. Not exactly *HATED* by critics in either case. Some critics, sure, but the overall reception in both cases was fairly positive.

Game critics now are nothing more than far-leftist over-sensitive mouthpieces who think that “offesive” jokes or games which are not “diverse” enough deserves a lower score, Kingdom Come Deliverence is one of those examples.
No one should take their words seriously if at all imo

The lack of integrity is the problem with gaming journalists like most media now days and the professional victim culture. O my poor Virgin ears, comedy is unacceptable, everyone's a rarest homophobic bigot... if this is you, you need some seppuku in your life.

Cuphead metacritic score is 88, gamer score 8.3. alien Isolation as 80 critics and 84 gamers. Shadow warrior 2, 75-80 critic, 84 gamer. One critic not liking the game is not all of them, some gamer loving the game is not all of them

"Critics" are just pretentious dipshits who think to know what they are talking about.
They always end up showing their personal and often political bias, ignoring any objective assessment of the product at hand.

Critics are people who don't actually want to play games, just there to work 9-5 and get paid so they can go home and do what they actually want to do. That's why they uprate Call of Duty flavor of the month, because it makes an easy day of work. While any game that's different, whether it's because it's Chinese/Japanese, or has difficulty, like Cuphead or Alien Isolation, makes their workday harder.